Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-22

Them, Tor they were denied or suppressed
by partisan press; but the leaders OF that
party, and the men who held these false
certificates, knew they were the frult or
forgery, perjury and ballot-box stutfing,
and they ought to be held up TO pubic
scorn.
But, fellow-citizens, L do not wish to enter
further into Ohio politics, for 1 know that
our brilliant and able Governor Foraker Is
amply able to take care Of his competitor,
and is much more familiar than with the
management Of our state affairs. be has
shown this in his clear and clean-cut speech
at Caldwell, supported by official figures.
Without disparagement of the sincerity and
honesty of our Democratic friends, will
say, and the records will make it good, that
in the conduct of state affairs, in the custody
public funds and in legislation for the good
Of the people, and generally in what is called
good government and honest administration,
3hey have not been so fortunate in the selec-
ton of their agents and officers as the Re
publican party and l think this is largely
due to the more severe and impartial scrutiny
of the Republican party and its prompt ex-
posure and punishment of Republican Of
ficials when guilty Of wrong"
The senator then showed the dividing line
between the two parties in National affairs,
reviewing the history Of the Democratic
party from the time it was opposed to the
adoption of the constitution through the
record of Jefferson to the notification OF
Calhoun and the other leaders of the party
down to the time when the Democratic
party became the guardian and defender OF
the institution of negro slavery, which be-
came the cornerstone of the party, and
finally involved the greater part of the
Democratic party in the rebellion Reach
ing this point, the senator said:
Here suppose l must not follow it, lest
I raise the bloody shirt; but it is sufficient
to say that at this moment the Democratic
party holds to the creed, the ideas and the
doctrines of the Democratic party of Cal
houn, except only that it has abandoned the
doctrine Of secession. 1t holds to the same
narrow construction of the constitution, the
same limited view of the powers of the Ma
tional government, and the same purpose to
abridge the exercise of acknowledged pow
ers, shown by the administration Of James
Buchanan, and which, when the rebels or
Confederates set up a government, were
made part and parcel of the constitution
now followed in many respects by President
Cleveland, and its author is apotbeosized by
the president and Mr.. Lamar.
Turning his attention to the traffic quest
ton and going into an elaborate argument
covering the delegation of National powers,
states rights and other questions, the sena-
tor said:
"The constitution gives to congress the ex-
elusive power to levy duties on imported
goods and to levy excises which, from their
nature, cannot be levied by states except TO
a limited degree. Let these fruitful sources
of revenue be applied for National purposes.
Let them be applied, as current revenue
will allow, to build up navy worthy of
our name to restore our commerce upon the
seas, to pay to the states tine money we
promised them, to refund the direct tax i'm
posed during the war, to protect our coasts
against foreign enemies, and, better than
all, by reasonable pensions, to compensate
in soma dapraa Gha SarVicaS and aaprif1aaz of
the soldiers of the Union, and to relieve the
widows and orphans of those who perished
that our country might live. Above ALL let
us not surrender or fritter away one jot or
tittlle of the powers granted to the general
government.
"While advocating this National policy,
the Republican party does not favor the
collection of taxes in excess OF the sums ao-
tually necessary to meet the proper expenses
of the government and to comply with our
obligations on the public debt. The money
of the people should not be withdrawn from
the channels Of speculation except to meet
proper National expenditures, and when COL
lected it should be paid out as rapidly as its
proper application will admit. Whenever
the revenues are in excess of the public
wants the taxes should be repealed or modi-
fed The duty has been frequently per-
formed by the Republican party. Since the
close of the war taxes have been repealed or
remitted that would have yielded $3.50, 900, =
600 a year. The last reduction in 1888 was
made by a Republican congress of more
than $50, 100000 of yearly revenue, un-
wisely in some particulars, but still a reduc-
ton in revenue.
Senator Sherman then directed his atten-
tion to the surplus revenue of sixty milions,
and the neglect of duty on the party of the
administration. He showed that the Demo-
cratic president and party had failed to
meet the duties which fell upon them, that
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party wished to make the reduction in the
line of the Confederate constitution desiring
to repeal and reduce the taxes that tend
to promote and foster American industry.
They wished to make wool duty free and
thus destroy wool growing as an industry in
this country. He made an able tariff argu-
ment and closed this branch of the speech in
the following language:
1.-THE president also has prevented the ap-
plication of money in the treasury to proper
subjects of expenditure. l thoroughly be-
lieve in economy, fidelity and integrity in
public expenditures and that no money
should be paid out of the treasury except
for national purpose demanded by public
policy. l need not assert this, for l think
my public life will prove that 1 have not
favored useless or excessive expenditure of
public money, but with an overfowing
treasury, the president has prevented by
vetoes or by Withholding his signature, the
application Of money to most important pur-
poses. They do not know how to reduce the
revenue or increase expenditure. l need
not refer to the vetoes of small pension bills,
for they were trivial in amount, and such as
l believe no president of the United States
before would have thought it his duty to
veto; nor to the dependent pension bill,
which was the application of the same prin-
ciple of iberality and justice to the depend
ent soldier Of ths Union army that was ap-
proved by him in respect to the Mexican
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harbor bill in the last days of the session
arrested the expenditure Of money for pub
lie improvements actually in course of con
struction and subject to injury and delay
'The opposition by the Democratic party
20 other just and proper subjects of ex-
penditure, especially for suitable provisions
for carrying the mail into foreign ports, for
the Improvement Of the navy, for the coast
defenses, is in harmony with the general
dogmas Of the party about the powers of the
National government Our flag floating
upon the seas, or ships carrying commerce
10 foreign ports, the protection Of particular
harbOrS and the construction OF railroads
seem to be contrary to the resolutions of '9S
and to ths Democratic platform. Indeed, l
know OF no act or measure Of this admins
tration that tends in any way to the extern
sion OF Our commerce at home or abroad, to
the development Of our country or to pro-
mote the business and prosperity Of our
people"
He referred to the great benefit that
would accrue to the growing south under a
policy of protection and said
'The people Of the south will soon per-
ceive how grievously the narrow policy Of
the Democratic party has retarded their
progress. We do complain of them in
manly way that by unlawful and unconsti-
tutional methods and by an appeal to the
recollections of the war and to the prejudi-
ces growing out of slavery, they have COM
bined, in solid political force, all the late
slaveholding states with the free trade and
disappointed elements of the north, and thus
have made possible reactionary movement
against National policy Of progress and
development and the election Of Mr.. Cleve-
land What has been the result of this
movement! What good has been done to
any state or section by the administration
of Grover Cleveland!
1T was said III the canvass of 1884 that
they wanted to turn the rascals out. 1t was
represented that frauds and peculations
were going on in the Republican administra-
tions, and that the books should be exam
ined and the thieves turned out. The first
act of the new administration was to exam
inc the books and they have been engaged in
that duty every since; but the books were
found to be correct. There were no rascals
to turn out, and, unlike what occurred in
previous Democratic administrations, there
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